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Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times...

Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the New York Times Opinion section and the cohost of the podcast Unclear and Present Danger. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Laura Lippman, named one of the one hundred essential crime writers of the past hundred years, has published a wide variety of novels and short stories in the genre, including PI fiction, noir, and cozies. In 2025, she was named...

Bernardo Rondeau is an independent programmer and writer based in Los Angeles. Previously, he served as senior director of film programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and curator of film programs at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London. Her criticism collection The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture is forthcoming from Columbia University Press later this year.

Olivia Laing is a writer and critic. Their books include The Lonely City, Funny Weather, and Crudo. Their latest novel, The Silver Book, is about the making of Federico Fellini’s Casanova and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s apocalyptic masterpiece, Salò, or The...

Michael Harriot is an award-winning writer, founder of the journalism collective ContrabandCamp.com, and author of the New York Times best seller Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America.